Hi! I'm back for just a minute. Don't tell Ms. Bad but I'm here to tell you about one of our "epic" failures! Recently we have been activating background knowledge to prepare us to read The Giver by Lois Lowry. This failure was with our first big group discussion called a Socratic Seminar. This Socratic Seminar was about euthanasia, which is a very controversial topic. Euthanasia is when someone (usually a doctor) gives a patient or person medicine that shortly after makes them die. Just like that, no pain, no nothing. Well, as you can imagine, a discussion on this topic was difficult to have because of all the opinions! This group discussion was our first one without Ms. Bad's help so we had a little trouble. "I talked a zillion times!" said Tanner. Because people didn't need to raise their hands and we just sat in a big circle with our chairs to discuss Ms. Bad's questions, it was crazy! We weren't supposed to interrupt students, but it was hard not to. After this Socratic Seminar failed, we talked as a class about ways to make it better. We talked about how this "failure" connects to a growth mindset, which our school is trying to get better at doing. A growth mindset means you believe that you can learn by trying new strategies. So we did it again and this time we talked more about Rites of Passage in our society and how they might happen in The Giver. This one was 100 times better! We had two smaller groups so only one half of the class discussed at a time, which helped with all the craziness from before. We had someone in charge of who was speaking too. We definitely learned from our mistakes and got it right the next time around. We're growing our growth mindsets! Now, got to go!
Abby
12/1/2017 06:04:05 pm
I do have to say that it was pretty bad the first time we tried it but the second time was much better. And as we spoke we learned other opinions and that help us gain background knowledge about the Giver.
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Sophia
2/6/2018 01:14:12 pm
It was funny how it was pretty crazy but still, the topic was very interesting to explore.
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